Chopper.



UMTED STATES PATENT onirica.

HARRY E. ASIBIURY, F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE ENTER- PRISE MANUFACTURING COMPANY 0F PENNSYLVANIA, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENN- SYLVAN'IA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

CHOPPER.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented'nee. 2a, 1914.

Application filed January 20, 1914. Serial No. 813,292.

lcertain Improvements in Choppers, of

which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certaln lmprovements in knives for meat choppers in which blade.

the meat, or other material passing through the machine, is cut in small pieces by the action of a knifeagainst a perforated plate through which the meat is forced by a feed screw or an equivalent appliance.

One object of my invention 1s to construct ameat chopper of this type with a blade which will have a yielding contact against the plate so that the meat will be cut more perfectly and uniformly than heretofore.

A. further object of the invention is to provide a'thin struck up sheet metal blade which is detachably held to a carrier so that the cutting edge of the blade will have a certain amount of elasticity to allow it to accommodateitself to the plate against which it travels.

A. still further object ofthe invention is to make both cutting edges of thin sheet metal, one being pressed up into shape to form the blade and the other being punched to form the other cutting edge. y

When it is necessary to replace the worn parts, these sheet metal elements can be removed and others substituted therefor, as in practice it has been found that the blades and plates should be arranged in pairs so 'as to accomplish perfect cutting.

In the accompanying drawing :-F igure l, is a side view, partly in section, of a meat chopper of the type above described and illustrating my invention; Fig. 2, is a sectional view on the line a-a, Fig. l; Fig. 3, is an enlarged sectional view on the line @-6, Fig. 2; Fig. 4, is a perspective view of the carrier; Fig. 5, is a 'perspective View of the knife blade; Fig. 6, is .a face view of the blade; .and Fig. 7 is an edge view of the Referring to the drawing, 1 is the body of the meat chopper having a hopper 2.

3 is the perforated supporting plate at l one. end of the body and having a bearing for the extension 5 of the feed screw 4. 'Ihe plate is held to the body portion in the usual manner by a ring 6 screwed onto the body portion, as shown.

7 1s the knife carrier and 8 is the knife.

The carrier and knife are mounted on the squared portion of the screw 4, as illustrated in Fig. 2.

9 is a handle by which the screw, knife carrier; and knife are rotated.

On the inside of the perforated plate and loosely secured thereto is a thin perforated sheet metal disk l0 forming the cutting surface against which the knife rotates. The carrier, in the present instance, has four arms 11 which are shaped as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. The knife has four blades 12, 4which may be shaped as shown in Figs. 3 and 5. yThe body portion 13 of each blade extends under the arms 11 of the carrier, as .illustrated in Fig. 3, and is clear of the disk 10, and each' blade is shouldered, -as at 14, to fit against the forward end of the arm and has an extended cutting portion 15 which is beveled at the end and is in yielding contact with the perforated plate 10 so that the cutting portion will accommodate itself to any slight unevenness in said plate.

It will be noticed that this portion 415 of each blade is inclined and will force the un` cut meat back and overthe joint between the blade and the carrier, so as to prevent the meat from entering the space between .the blade and the carrier. If the meat should enter between these two parts, then the knife and the screw will be jammed and the machine will work hard and unevenly.

The hub 16 of the carrier 7 in the present instance, is rectangular so as to fit over the rectangular portion of the extension 5 of the feed screw. The knife 8 has a'hub 17, which is pressed up from the thin sheet metal and this hub extends into the hub 16 ofthe carrier when the two parts are placed together and, as the shoulders 14 `t against 'the forward edge of the arms 11 of the carrier, the knife mustturn with thecarrier, but each blade of the knife is independently fiexible so as to accommodate itself to the surface of the thin iexible perfovthat-both vwill vield, insuring YVonf-the Y' Vmeat without tearing, and when it 1s necessar to replace the knifethe thin perforated ydis is also removed so that, in thev event of one havingV a nick or groove .in it,'the cut.

ting operation of the Vmeat will not be affected. Y Y

' jBy thisinventionthere is no accurate iinishing of the knife as lWhere the blade is made of cast metal and unyielding. Theg, same is true of the perforated plate. TheV vsheetmetal disk can be used without further finishing, which materially,V decreases the costof manufacture. Y

' While I havey described my deviceas ap'- lied yto .a machine for cutting meat, itwill e understood that it may be used for cut-4 Y ting other materials without departing from .Y fthe essential features ofthe-invention.

-Iclairm- .Y x, 1.*The combination in a meat cutter,-.of a Yperforated supporting disk; a thin flexible f perforated disk supported by the first mentione'ddisk and prevented'froln tur-nino independently ofthe first mentioned dis a rotating. feedingk device; a carriermounted l thereon so asto Vturn therewith; and Ya flex ible knife arranged to turn with the carrier landto bear against the flexible disk sothat `one will accommodate itself to the other as the knife and its 'carrier rotate..

2. The combination ina meat cutter,.of a

casing; aperforated plate secured to vkthe flexible sheetvmetal knife,

o the feed screw, and engaged by thecarrier casing; a feedvscrew mounted in the casing; means for turnm 'the feed screw;a-carr1er Y mounted on the eed screw andv arranged to turn therewith, saidcarrier having arms; a also mounted on so that it willturnftherewith, said knife having a hub entering -the hub of the ca'rrier and having blades locatedbetweem the having a flexible cutting portion extending `beyond the arms of the carrier and bearing against the plate. Y

3. The combination in a meat cutter, of a casing; a perforated plate. secured to the casing; meanslocated within the casing for feeding the meat to the perforated plate; a.

within the casing; afknife arranged torotate with the carrier and having 1ts cutting edges bearin against the plate, said knife having shoudered blades bearing against the front edge ofgeach' arm of the carrier so that'the meat back of the knife Willbe preblades and the arms of the carrier.

AThe combination in a meat chopper, of

carrier? andthe perforz'ited plate,leach 'blade .5o l rotating "carrier having arms and, located vented from entering the space Vbetween the sof a casing;. a perforated plate secured thereto; a feed `screw mounted in the casing and having an extension; a carrler havmg arms and mounted on vthe extension of the feed screw and so arranged that it will turn with the feed screw; a .thin ilemble knife mounted. between the carrier and the perforated plate, the carrier havingarms and the knifehav'ing blades corresponding to the arms and having `a shouldered projecting portion in front of each arm and also having an inclined surface for directing uncut meat clear of the space between the arms of the Acarrier and the blades, said portions being beveledto form a cutting edge which bears against the plate.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my i name to this specification, in the two .subscribing witnesses. A s

HARRYE. AsisURr presence` of VWitnesses: f

'i Cmmnl. Mom, WM. A. BARR. 

